FASTDB & Alert Streams
Store and query transient alerts, with CanDIAPL benchmarking and alert-ingestion development.
FASTDB is the Fast Access to Survey Transients Database developed by DESC. CanDIAPL’s fork and alert-stream work support Rubin ingestion, database benchmarking and integration with multi-messenger analysis. Current development prepares a production instance and evaluates how indexing and growing alert volumes affect performance.
Maturity
Alpha
Access
CADC / CANFAR
CADC sign-in is requested only for protected operations.
Maintainers
Mohammed Chamma
What it supports
Use cases
- Rubin alert storage
- Transient queries
- Ingestion benchmarks
- Multi-messenger integration
Where it runs
Runtime homes
CANFAR Science PlatformCANFAR Harbor
GitHub / templateGitHub
Hosted access is being prepared. Roman alert support remains a feasibility and integration study.
Runtime, inputs & outputs
- Distributions
- Source repository · Source repository
- Runtime
- not-applicable
- Access
- account-required
- Inputs
- Not specified
- Outputs
- Not specified
Names & abbreviations
- CADC
- Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
- CANFAR
- Canadian Advanced Network for Astronomical Research
- CanDIAPL
- Canadian Data Intensive Astrophysics Platform
- DESC
- Dark Energy Science Collaboration
Connected work
Related science context
Alert simulation, storage and monitoringLASS provides public alert simulation; FASTDB benchmarking, transient-dashboard development and kilonova-classifier training support the connected alert workflow.
Multi-messenger listeners and classifiersGala ingestion, common event schemas, transient-dashboard metrics and kilonova filtering are being developed with shared database and analysis interfaces.